How to get the current active view in a region using PRISM?

Question

I know that i can get all the registered views in a region with :

var vs = mRegionManager.Regions[RegionNames.MainRegionStatic].Views.ToList();

and i can see there is the following code :

mRegionManager.Regions[RegionNames.MainRegionStatic].ActiveViews

which is giving a list of Active View, but I'm having my region attached to a ContentControl which always has a single ActiveView. Am i misunderstood or is there a way to get the single active view?

Answer 1

var singleView = regionManager.Regions["MyRegion"].ActiveViews.FirstOrDefault();

Answer 2

var singleView = regionManager.Regions["MyRegion"].ActiveViews.FirstOrDefault();

This is not correct, as it will just bring whatever view that got activated first. not the currently active/visible view.

Can't find a direct solution though, that doesn't involve custom implementation on View or ViewModel.

Answer 3

Well, you could use the NavigationService Journal. It takes record of all the navigation that takes place in your application. So, you can get the name of the view like this:

string name = mRegionManager.Regions[RegionNames.MainRegionStatic].NavigationService.Journal.CurrentEntry.Uri;

Then you can get the view like this:

mRegionManager.Regions[RegionNames.MainRegionStatic].GetView(name);

Sweet Right? :)